Juan Carlos Ongania

Juan Carlos Ongania Carballo (17 March 1914-8 June 1995) was President of Argentina from 29 June 1966 to 8 June 1970, succeeding Arturo Umberto Illia and preceding Roberto M. Levingston. He served as military dictator after ousting Illia's democratically-elected Radical Civic Union government.

Biography
Juan Carlos Ongania Carballo was born in Marcos Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina on 17 March 1914, and he served as a military officer for several decades. In 1963, as Chief of the Army, he crushed a naval revolt against President Jose Maria Guido, but, in 1966, he overthrew President Arturo Umberto Illia after the Peronists scored a major electoral victory. Ongania suspended political parties and the right to strike and instead supported corporatism; he was a staunch social conservative, proscribing miniskirts, long hair for boys, and all avant-garde artistic movements. The military feared that its influence would decrease due to a loss of support caused by Ongania's strict laws, which resulted in workers' and students' uprisings in Cordoba and Rosario in 1969, and he was toppled by a military junta in 1970. He died in 1995.